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February 27, 2010

Nobody was supposed to film any footage of Samus' next adventure, but hey, this is the Internet.

The Examiner has posted some leaked footage of Metroid: Other M, recorded at last week's Nintendo Media Summit.

The footage seems to be a recreation of the end of Super Metroid, when a baby Metroid gives its life to Samus in order to allow her to defeat Mother Brain. In a continuation of the story, Samus wakes up in a quarantine unit of a hospital, and some rather uninspired voice acting ensues.

Upcoming DSiWare title X-Scape is explained to us by Dan Owsen, who was involved in the creation of its predecessor 18 years ago.

Nintendo's Dan Owsen gave us a great demo of their upcoming DSiWare title X-Scape at the recent Nintendo Media Summit. Dan provides a very detailed explanation of the first-person space tank shooter, so the video pretty much speaks for itself!

NWR's good buddy Chris Kohler (Wired.com) was up to his usual shenanigans at this week's Nintendo Media Summit. Here we present some of his finer moments, in a series we call "Chris Kohler: Man About Town".

Here, Chris uses his best material on NOA's David Young (himself an owner of one of the best tattoos ever), in a shameless attempt to become a Nintendo Jedi.

One of the most highly-anticipated Wii games amongst the Nintendo hardcore is Sin & Punishment 2: Star Successor. We had a chance to go hands-on with the title at Nintendo's recent Media Summit, and we think Aaron's hands are still smoking from the experience.

The first part of the video shows of some frenetic side-scrolling shooter action.

If you don't know about this WiiWare game, now you do. And it's awesome. And you should buy it on March 8.

NWR had a chance to go hands-on with Press Play's incredibly cool upcoming WiiWare title Max & the Magic Marker. Reminiscent of Scribblenauts, you draw objects on the screen with your Wii Remote, and they appear exactly as you draw them. It easier to show than describe, so on to the direct-feed footage!

Shortly after Nintendo's Media Summit, we had a chance to visit with the team from Tetris Online, Inc., developers of upcoming DS title Tetris Party Deluxe.

The gameplay here is interesting, but also listen to the conversation between Aaron and the Tetris Online representative. Aaron again shows why he's the Nintendo trivia master, offering them a tidbit of information about Tetris in Japan that even they didn't know!

We catch Team Meat on the floor of the Nintendo Media Summit, and they have us on the floor, comedically speaking.

NWR's roving reporting reporter Aaron Kaluszka ran into Team Meat, creators of Super Meat Boy, at the Nintendo Media Summit this week. He cornered them and forced them into a no-holds-barred interview in which the team described their stalking of Reggie Fils-Aime.

Our own Aaron Kaluszka got some hands-on time with Monster Hunter Tri at Nintendo's recent Media Summit, and he brought along his camera. He was brave enough to get this footage of a monster hunter's exploits in the wilderness!

The first part of his video shows him picking a character and going after some low-level beasties.

Mario, Yoshi, and paragoombas appear in this new trailer for the beautiful 3D platformer.

Nintendo unveiled a new trailer for Super Mario Galaxy 2 at the Nintendo Media Summit. In the trailer, Mario deals with a number of familiar foes like paragoombas and boos. Yoshi is also shown swinging around the levels using his tongue.

Update: Now with higher quality footage and a gameplay video that features a remix of a Mario World tune.

Nintendo also reveals an upcoming demo disc for the huge release. UPDATED with Press Release.

Monster Hunter Tri is undoubtedly one of the most highly anticipated Wii games of 2010. Capcom has avoided giving it a set release date for a while, but at today's Media Summit Nintendo confirmed a North American launch date of April 20.

Metroid: Other M, the latest entry in the storied franchise, will launch in North America on June 27 2010.

The game, which is being co-developed by Nintendo and Tecmo's Team Ninja, will focus on Samus' character. At their Q1 Media Summit, Nintendo said, "When you finish playing this, you're going to feel like you know Samus in a way you've never known her before".